Financial Controller, Netherlands

Job description

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier **agentic platform for personalization**.We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the ***entire*** customer journey. - We're taking **autonomous search** mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses. - We’re making **conversational shopping** a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey. - We're designing the future of **autonomous marketing**, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do. And we're building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine — **Loomi** — so that personalization isn't only autonomous…it's also consistent.From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora. ## **About the Role** Bloomreach is looking for a Financial Controller to lead financial accounting, reporting, and compliance for our Dutch entities. The successful candidate will be strategic with technical accounting expertise, strong judgement and hands-on, operationally oriented. This role will be responsible for financial accuracy, controls and governance and financial reporting for a key operating entity with strong command of US GAAP and Dutch GAAP. You will be driving process improvement through automation and AI. You'll be the local finance owner for our Netherlands operations, working closely with global finance, controllership, and audit teams to keep our Dutch entities accurate, compliant, and efficient. ## **What You'll Do** **Accounting Analysis & Management Reporting**: - Own the accounting preparation and review process for all Netherland entities, serving as the primary lead for accuracy and completeness for monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities.Provide deep-dive variance analysis for key accounts including gross margin analysis, cloud computing costs, mobile communication costs, and opex. - Perform, review and approve journal entries, payroll expenses and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of open items. - Ensure financial statements are prepared in accordance with both US GAAP and local GAAP. - Serve as the in-region subject matter expert on local statutory requirements, accounting standards, multi-entity international consolidations, and taxes. - Partner with the centralized Global Accounting teams. **Audit and Tax Coordination** - Manage all statutory audit activity for Netherland entities, including coordinating with external auditors (corporate and local), preparing audit files, and resolving queries. - Act as the primary lead for external audit execution for Netherland entities. Coordinate the process from initial planning and walkthroughs to finalization, ensuring a clean and timely audit cycle. Support audit requests and disclosures for consolidated audit under US GAAP. - Drive statutory compliance for Dutch entities. - Lead local tax compliance (Indirect Tax, Corporate Tax, and Transfer Pricing) and tax provision for Netherlands entities in partnership with internal tax SME and external advisors. **Controls, Governance & Compliance** - Manage regulatory reporting requirements. Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal governance frameworks. Assess the financial impact of new regulatory requirements and assess their financial reporting impact. - Strengthen and maintain financial controls and governance processes. Document and improve key financial processes. Monitor compliance with internal policies and regulatory expectations. Drive ongoing enhancements to the control environment to meet the requirements of a public company (IPO). **Cash flow and treasury** - Manage day-to-day cash management for the Dutch entities - Own cash flow visibility and forecasting for the Netherlands and partner with accountants in US, Europe and APAC regions. - Manage local banking relationships. **Continuous improvement** - Lead initiatives to streamline finance processes, leveraging systems, automation and AI. - Champion the use of AI and automation tools to streamline accounting, reporting, and reconciliation workflows. ## **What You Bring** - Registered Accountant (AA/RA), Registered Controller (RC), or a Master's degree in either Accounting or Controlling. - Have 8 or more years of relevant accounting and finance leadership experience, ideally in a US-parented multinational organization. - A natural curiosity to dive into the numbers, digging deep enough to understand the story behind them and explain them clearly and simply to others. - Deep knowledge of local accounting requirements, with the ability to bridge local statutory requirements and US GAAP reporting. - Practical experience managing statutory accounts, working with external auditors, and owning the full audit cycle. - Experience operating within a multinational company, ideally with a centralized or shared-services accounting model. - Demonstrated ability to manage corporate tax compliance across multiple European jurisdictions in partnership with external advisors. - Strong understanding of multi-currency consolidations, cash flow management, and intercompany transactions including FX considerations. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across time zones and with US-based colleagues. - Comfort operating in ambiguity and a proactive approach to building scalable processes in a fast-growing environment. #LI-HO1 ## More things you'll like about Bloomreach: ### **Culture:** - A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. - We have defined our [5 values](https://www.bloomreach.com/en/careers?utm_source=Job-Description-Footer&utm_medium=Job-Description&utm_content=Hyperlink-1) and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. - We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style. - We work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents. - We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead. - We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer\*. - The [Bloomreach Glassdoor page](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Bloomreach-EI_IE442167.11,21.htm) elaborates on our stellar 4.7/5 rating. The [Bloomreach Comparably page](https://www.comparably.com/companies/bloomreach) Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5 ### **Personal Development:** - We have a People Development Program - participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions. - Our resident communication coach [Ivo Večeřa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivo-ve%C4%8De%C5%99a-2a94291/) is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.\* - Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins. - Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)\* ### **Well-being:** - The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.\* - Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.\* - We organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones. - We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other. - Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.\* ### **Compensation:** - Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.\* - Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.\* - We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000! - We reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!\* *(\*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)* **Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences!** *If this position doesn't suit you, but you know someone who might be a great fit, share it - we will be very grateful!* --- *Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of Bloomreach are considered property of Bloomreach and are not subject to payment of agency fees.* #LI-Remote